The Puppet Masters: Spies, traitors and the real forces behind world events - Couverture rigide

Hughes-Wilson, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0297846159 ISBN 13 : 9780297846154

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The secret world of military intelligence - written by a senior intelligence officer

John Hughes-Wilson is a former intelligence officer and is ideally placed to reveal the secret history of military intelligence. He takes us 'behind the scenes' of military and political events from Elizabeth I to Osama bin Laden and the crisis in the Middle East.

The book is divided into three parts. The first investigates some famous disasters when lack of intelligence was the decisive factor, e.g. Gallipoli and Dieppe. The second examines some equally famous examples of good intelligence being overlooked or ignored, e.g. the 'bridge too far' battle of Arnhem. The last part goes behind the scenes of some famous successes, from the capture of Slobodan Milosevic to the defeat of IRA bombing campaigns and the arrest of a spy ring at the heart of NATO.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Intelligence is the hidden force behind many major events in world history. The Cold War spying game, as depicted by John le Carré, has been going on for centuries. Almost every devious trick used by the KGB or the CIA would have been familiar to Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth I's intelligence chief. Secret intelligence connections have been key to the success of all the great statesmen and generals from Caesar and Genghis Khan to Cardinal Richelieu and George Washington. Today, with radio, telephone and email, intelligence has been transformed and vast agencies spawned by the world wars and the Cold War have now reinvented themselves for the `war on terror' : a war that can only be won by intelligence, in all its forms.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0297846159
• ISBN 13: 9780297846154
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320